ephemeral ━━ 𝘓. 𝘓𝘈𝘜𝘍𝘌𝘠𝘚𝘖𝘕 ✔

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She placed a hand on a twenty foot door that rested in front of her. The door pulsed and it swung itself inside.

Loraine carefully walked in. It was the same as the last. The warm breeze danced from the opened terrace of the chamber. Its walls were bronze and metal, like they were tiles. Everything looked like iron, or maybe some kind of foreign stuff.

She strolled closer to the balcony, where Thor stood, his eyes gazing at the horizon. He had his usual armor with red cape. His blonde hair seemed to glimmer against the milky glow of the moon. He didn't have Mijolnir with him though.

"Loraine..." He started. "Do you ever doubt what's out there?"

The balcony was odd. It didn't have any fences which could've served for protection if ever someone might fall. She guessed maybe Asgardians were too smart to go near the edge. "Yes," she replied.

"And what do you think?" He asked.

"It's dangerous," she said. "The world, that is."

"But Asgard wasn't ever dangerous." He told her.

"Thor, last night, I saw a Kree near our cave," she stated.

Thor nodded. It wasn't new information. "Asgardians and Norsemen are already on the lookout, scouting every village there is."

She got the feeling it wasn't every day for Asgard to prepare for something worse. They were peaceful: no rebels, no revolution and no civil wars.

"But what's happening?" She asked. The village was destroyed. But what questioned her mostly was why, how and who was responsible for that matter.

He turned to her. "We fear war might be coming upon us," he explained. "The Kree that you had found was a possibility that the Bifrost isn't the only way foreign race could come inside Asgard." He paused, and then something in his eyes painted with uncertain. "Loki might be doing this..."

Her eyebrows shot straight up. "Loki? What has this got to do with him? He didn't even know how it got here." She shook her head. Thor was being delusional.

"But what if he knows. Did he tell you he doesn't? How would you know he wasn't lying?"

"Thor -Stop. Loki trusts me," she pointed to herself. "He wouldn't lie to me."

Thor pondered for awhile. "During the war in New York. You do know what his army was? Yes?" He asked and stared at the horizon again.

She pursued her lips. "Of course, it was the Chitauri - our ancient enemy," she replied.

He nodded again. "And the Chitauri is serving its master - Thanos. Do you know him?"

She didn't know any Thanos in her life. It wasn't in their textbooks and that name wasn't discussed there. If the Chituari served Thanos, then could it be that Thanos was the one who ordered the Chitauri to battle Earth decades ago?

"No."

Thor crossed his arms. "Thanos is a madtitan, capable enough to destroy worlds. With one of the race, he commands, found in Asgard, causing havoc in one of our villages, he is definitely planning something."

"Why? Does he have any begrudges against Asgard?" She asked.

Thor held on to this. He didn't know any enemy of Thanos here. The only one who really had encountered him was Loki, and Loki was his ally. "No, but Loki was one of his associates. He might've opened something to get Loki out so they could proceed with whatever they would do."